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Notre Dame Cathedral reopens after suicide

  Paris’s famous Notre Dame Cathedral has reopened after a man committed suicide there. The man was described by police as a right-wing activist who had campaigned against France’s new gay marriage law.

Gay marriage opponent kills himself in Paris' Notre Dame

PARIS (Reuters) - An 78-year-old French far-right activist committed suicide at the altar of the Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday by shooting himself in the mouth, three days after a law legalizing same-sex marriage came into effect. Full story

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